Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「以錐飡壼」 and how it’s used.
This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「以錐飡壼」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Use an awl to get food from the pot. A metaphor for failing to achieve one’s purpose.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐ zhuī cān kǔn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi5 jeui1 syun1 kwan2
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
